A second source is used to prop up this improbable claim, while a short-sleeved Mark casually reaches over a workstation in a postmodern office.

The study also makes the improbable claim that more than 95 percent of the influence of one's family on political attitudes is genetic and that the many years spent growing up with one's family have essentially no impact on your attitudes.

Mr. Sick does not strengthen his case by pussyfooting around improbable claims from several sources that George Bush, then a candidate for Vice President, was also at the Paris meeting.

They said that Jackins made improbable claims, took a dogmatic stance and ignored evidence.

That's it, except that he attributes to Mr. Harrington the improbable claim that the Second Quartet is somehow an inevitable sequel to the First, which was written stylistic light-years before.

The road to the right leads to Baltimore, whose improbable claim to fame is that it was sacked by Algerian pirates in 1631, and its inhabitants carried off into slavery.

His wildest or most improbable claims are based on what he grasps as an emotional truth.

The second was his mitigation claim that it was a one off isolated offence which the Judge deemed, based upon the evidence submitted, to be an improbable claim.

"4 Governor Howard Dean made the most improbable claim of all: "The capture of Saddam," he ventured, "has not made America safer.

Kerry has been dogged by allegations of "flip-flopping" on the subject of the world's greatest beverage since earlier this year, when he made his infamous and improbable claim that Miller Lite "is less filling, but also tastes great."